SUCH IS FAME.
Although Mr. Thomas Hardy has lived for so long in Dorsetshire, among the very scenes that he has described so graphically, he is of such a modest and. retiring _ disposition that his great fame is practically unknown to a number of the quiet TOuntry folk. An amusing story is told of an enthusiastic admirer of the anther who visited Dorset, and approached an old dame who was sitting outside her cottage door. "Mr. Hardy lives near hare, doesn't he ?" he inquired. "Whioh Mr. Hardy?" asked the old woman. "Why, 'the' Mr. Hardy who writes books," replied the astonished pilgrim. "Oh, I know nought about Turn,'" 6aid the countrywoman, "but there be a Hardy neat by who rears grand pigs!"
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 813, 10 May 1910, Page 3
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122SUCH IS FAME. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 813, 10 May 1910, Page 3
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